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PicView is a fast, free and fully customizable picture viewer for macOS and Windows 10/11. It supports virtually all image file types, including(animated)WEBP,(animated)GIF,SVG,AVIF,HEIC,PSD and many others.

Enjoy a clean, free, and fast experience with no annoying pop-ups, and zero tracking. It works out of the box — or you can customize it to your needs.

Latest releases at PicView.org

Scoop:

scoop bucket add extras;scoop install extras/picview

Winget:

winget install picview

Homebrew:

brew install picview

Mirrors

uptodown
FossHub
SourceForge
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UI overview with bottom gallery.

Switch between a dark and a light theme and toggle between hiding the UI.

Perform operations such asrenaming,file conversion,copying,compressing,resizing, adding it to therecycle bin and editing theEXIF image rating.

You can change the image size by editing thewidth and/orheight textboxes. To resize by a percentage, simply add the% symbol after the value.

If the GPS coordinates are saved on the image, you can click the Google or Bing buttons to open the respective maps at the GPS coordinates

PressG to open or close the image gallery

Navigate the gallery with thearrow keys orW,A,S,D and load the selected image withEnter or theE key.The bottom gallery can be turned on or off

Quickly crop image by pressingC. HoldShift for square selection.

All selected files will be sent to Output folder. The default name for the output folder will be the localized translation forBatch resize.

The `Convert to dropdown option allows you to convert all the files to a popular format.

The Compression dropdown option allows you to compress the files, either without losing quality or sacrifing some quality for greater reduced file size.

The Quality dropdown option allows you to change quality of supported file types. The higher the Quality setting, the more detail is preserved in the image, but the larger the file size.

The Resize dropdown option allows you to resize the picture byheight,width andpercentage while keeping the aspect ratio of the image.

The thumb tab item allows you to generate up to 7 thumbnails.

They can be resized byheight,width andpercentage while keeping the aspect ratio.

Each thumbnail will be sent to its own folder. Each folder will have a suggested folder name from small to medium, large etc., in an ascending order

Rename or move files in the title bar by pressingF2 or right-clicking it.Changing the file extension will convert the image to the respective format.

• Common: .jpg .jpeg .jpe .png .bmp .tif .tiff .gif .ico .jfif .webp .svg .svgz
• Advanced: .psd .psb .xcf .jxl .heic .heif .jp2 .hdr .tga .dds
• RAW: .3fr .arw .cr2 .cr3 .crw .dcr .dng .erf .kdc .mdc .mef .mos .mrw .nef .nrw .orf .pef .raf .raw .rw2 .srf .x3f
• Other: .pgm .hdr .cut .exr .dib .emf .wmf .wpg .pcx .xbm .xpm .wbmp

You can view and change keyboard shortcuts by opening theKeybindings window by pressingK.Alternatively, they are also listed atPicView.org.

PicView is built in C# .NET using Avalonia cross-platform XAML UI framework.All builds are compiled using NativeAOT(with trimming), resulting in a fully self-contained native executable.

Using Cysharp’s ZLinq and ZString for zero allocation and high performance, and R3 for high-performance ViewModel binding and event streams.

Magick.NET is used for its rich file support, image editing, and information capabilities.

Building:
Open and run the solution in Visual Studio or Rider.If you're using arm64 hardware, make sure to change the platform target to your CPU architecture in the project properties, as well as changing the Magick.NET NuGet packages to match.

Contributions are welcome! Check out theHelp wanted label to get started.

Improvements to the current code or bug fixes are also welcome!

Simplified Chinese byCrystal-RainSlide,jasoneri
Traditional Chinese bywcxu21,jasoneri
Spanish bylk.KEVIN(help wanted to update translation)
Korean byVenusGirl
German byBrotbox,uDEV2019
Polish byYourSenseiCreeper
French bySylvain LOUIS
Italian byfranpoli
Russian byandude10
Romanian byM. Gabriel Lup
Swedish byStefan Parmark
Brazilian Portuguese byAnderson Cardoso
Dutch byLien5
Japanese bycoolvitto
Hebrew byY-PLONI
Hungarian byJohnFowler58
Turkish byDest
English and Danish byRuben2776

Looking for translators!

If you want to help translate another language or update/improve a current one and be listed here, please take a look at#13.

All releases are virus scanned and digitally signed.

Free code signing is provided bySignPath.io, certificate bySignPath Foundation.

PicView does not collect, send, or receive any user data.